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Sculpturing the terrain : Creating a HOBBY GARDEN ! Within our campus, the green sloppy area near the lake is proposed to be designed as a hobby garden. The hobby garden should consist of plots, 5 m square each, an amphitheater, an exhibition wall as well as a clear circulation system.

Work objective : Designing a parasitic aggregate structure that volumetrically expands in space through the repetition of modular units of circle folds.   Work concept : Design a structure that provides a new perspective, gives orientation to the public by emphasising the connection between two floors and  the movement on them.

H ow designers think ? This is a question that brings a boost to our brain and makes us reflect : Firstly, what is design ? And later on, how do we think it terms of it ? Even nowadays we still don't have a specific answer since it gets different meanings by particular groups of people. In our day to day life we may hear sayings like Design is everything ! Design is interdisciplinary ! Design is a process ! As a matter of fact they all contain a true meaning. Design is everything, it is found in different disciplines, as a high professional or everyday activity, but always regarded as a process and not only an end product. Design has always been connected with our contemporary intellectual endeavour including art, science and philosophy. The designers of today can no longer be trained to follow a set of procedures, since the world rate changes day after day. But they are trained to always try creating something that could bring a difference, by not paying much attention only to...

S eating arrangements : an elementary lecture in functional planning ! "Main idea behind every space is to go to the essence of the activity". This expression helps us understand the real importance of space and form. To just define and later on design a space is not enough to give to it an approach with its activity. The architect must understand the essence, aim, use of the area to later on connect it with its context. And to achieve this more than just an application of knowledge is required, you must put in use culture, philosophical and psychological knowledge, all of which make architecture a humane and scientific inquiry. However, even though humanity has an important role in architecture itself, and "form follows function" in modern times functionalism is going far away from it. An elementary planning problem is the arrangement of the seating. In order to understand that there is no stereotype , but need to recognize the essence of what is going on some e...

S olids and Cavities in Architecture ! Observing a building in order to understand it demands a certain visual process, in which every detail it's important and enough in its own. This kind of process is creative, since you try to form a complete image of what you have seen and give to that building a voice of its own. The visual process of observing a building is much more alike with the building process itself. The architect firstly decides on the main structure of the building and then continues to add details on it. His aim is to give form to the materials he works with. But still, this doesn't have to be limited only in working with Solid form, one could let the imagination work with the Cavities as well. Cavity is the clearly defined space enclosed within the outer walls that represents the limited architecturally formed space. In other words the solid is the container and cavity the contained. Due to this approach even the architects are grouped in Solid-minded and Cavi...

F rom the past to the present ! Year after year architecture has faced serious and fundamental changes which placed it in a field completely apart from the other arts. As a result, today we have undeniable examples of what is called "Building Correctly" ! To built correctly sometimes is easier said than done. It maintains four essential elements which include stability, durability, function and maximum result with minimum means, in other words economic efficiency. These all are what make a construction built correctly and add quality to a work of architecture. If a building it is not stable, resistant towards the action of external elements, doesn't fulfill it's function, purpose and usability then it can not be considered correct. That's why while studying architecture from the past to the present different architects and constructors have raised many questions and given many approaches on how to reach the best out of an architectural work. One of them is Pierr...

C olor in Architecture ! The more we experience architecture the more we realise how wide and complex it is, and how many elements it helds inside. Color is one of them, an essential, beautiful and simple element, but at the same time a delicate one, which needs to be treated carefully and be worked with responsibility. If we take a look at the beginning of the color usage and continue it until now we will realise that color played a role in human evolution process. Since color is a sensory perception it causes symbolic, associative, synthetic, psychological or emotional effects. That's why an architect must consider every color effect of the elements at a building construction, materials, paint and all the other surroundings. Color is the typical example of the element which was no problem at all, since it came of itself. Every building has a color, even if it is the color of the material from which it is made. It's main purpose is to help form,  define or articulate spaces....